{"id":560032,"date":"2018-12-20T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=32773"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:06:44","slug":"uwe-4-satellite-ready-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=560032","title":{"rendered":"UWE-4 satellite ready to launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_32774\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32774\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/12\/20\/uwe-4-satellite\/uwe-4-in-the-launch-deployer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png\" data-orig-size=\"400,401\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UWE-4 in the launch deployer\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;UWE-4 in the launch deployer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png?w=300&#038;h=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png?w=400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32774\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png?w=300&#038;h=300\" alt=\"UWE-4 in the launch deployer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png?w=300&amp;h=300 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png?w=150&amp;h=150 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-in-the-launch-deployer.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">UWE-4 in the launch deployer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week our Team returned from the Vostochny Launch Site (Russia) where we performed the last check out tests of UWE-4 before launch on December 27<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be launched through the German integrator ECM Space on a Soyuz-2 mission using a Fregat upper stage on December 27, 2018 at 02:07:18 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>UWE-4 transportation to Far East of Russia was very smooth, so only a last software update and recharging of the batteries needed to be performed. By now, UWE-4 has been successfully integrated into the launch deployer followed by the integration with the upper stage, the fairing encapsulation will occur Thursday December 20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32775\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/12\/20\/uwe-4-satellite\/uwe-4-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UWE-4 Logo\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;UWE-4 Logo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png?w=300&#038;h=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png?w=593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32775 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png?w=300&#038;h=300\" alt=\"UWE-4 Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png?w=300&amp;h=300 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png?w=150&amp;h=150 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/UWE-4-Logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the meantime we updated our website to provide more detailed information about the orbit and the communication parameter including the beacon decoding information.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all these and some more details here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de\/forschung\/space-exploration\/projects\/uwe-4\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de\/forschung\/space-exploration\/projects\/uwe-4\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As soon as we can provide the TLE, you will find them also on our website.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>The UWE\u20114 Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our Team returned from the Vostochny Launch Site (Russia) where we performed the last check out tests of UWE-4 before launch on December 27 The satellite will be launched through the German integrator ECM Space on a Soyuz-2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2018\/12\/20\/uwe-4-satellite\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560034,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560032\/revisions\/560034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}